Lost Packages and Family Reunions – Increase the excitement with the reopening of the US border.

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There are tens of thousands of uncollected packages waiting for the Windsorites in Detroit.

The owner of Detroit Mail Box, one of the Detroit companies that accepts American deliveries on behalf of Canadians, said he is sitting on about 50,000 uncollected packages. Some “fanatics” have 200 packages waiting for them.

Ryan Hill expects some of them to walk out the door Monday when the U.S. land border reopens to non-essential travelers.

“It’s crazy,” Hill said. “Anytime we were open before the pandemic, we would have 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 packages. You still have those packages because people haven’t crossed over. And there are still people asking for things, which is strange to me. But they are. It’s just accumulation. I had to buy another location just to house some of the things. “

The US government will begin allowing fully vaccinated non-essential travelers to cross its land borders again starting Monday.

The Canada Border Services Agency issued a statement on Friday reminding people that the measures remain in effect for people entering or returning to Canada, including testing a negative COVID-19 test. But Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s director of public health, also stated Friday that the policy should be re-examined.

“It’s overwhelming,” said Art Malott, a Harrow resident who hopes to reunite with his girlfriend and family in Ferndale. “To tell the truth, I’m sure I’ll be nervous the first time I get to the border. It is just natural. It’s not that I’m doing something wrong, but what am I up to? How are the questions going to be? All that kind of stuff. It’s going to be different. “

His girlfriend, Kim Thompson, has been visiting him in Harrow. But much of their life together was centered in Michigan. Malott has not seen his family since March 2020.

“His family and our grandchildren on his side are there,” Malott said. “We had a new one born in August, and I haven’t seen her yet.”

But with Canada’s proof requirement still in place, Hill wondered how many other Canadians will rush across the border. He has received calls from snowbirds looking to grab his packages on the way to Florida. But he fears that the hikers, who make up most of his business, will be slow to return.

“Until the Canadian government gets rid of that mandatory PCR test, I don’t think people will rush to the United States,” Hill said. “Double vaccination makes sense. I get it. But this PCR test I think is ridiculous. They’ll have to get rid of that if things are going to get back to normal. “

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